Is China a Status Quo or Revisionist State? Leadership Travel as an Empirical Indicator of Foreign Policy Priorities

International Studies Quarterly

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 163-177

  Kastner, Scott L ^a   Saunders, Phillip C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOREIGN POLICY; GEOPOLITICS; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; LEADERSHIP;

CHINA;

EID: 84858626193     PISSN: 00208833     EISSN: 14682478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2478.2011.00697.x     Document Type: Article

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